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Rupert Murdoch to Close News of the World

Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate announced today that it is closing down 168-year-old News of the World, Britain's biggest Sunday tabloid currently embroiled in an intensifying scandal over alleged phone hacking of celebrities, families of terror victims and a murdered girl. James Murdoch, who heads News International's European operations, said the paper will publish its last edition Sunday. Murdoch told the staff that the paper's good deeds "have been sullied by behavior that was wrong;...Full Story
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